This sermon follows Jacob on the road home as he faces the unresolved guilt and fear surrounding his broken relationship with Esau, while God reminds him that he isn’t traveling alone. When the prospect of meeting Esau overwhelms him, Jacob models candid prayer by calling on God, pleading his promises, remembering his past goodness, and honestly asking for help. Jacob then takes costly and vulnerable steps toward reconciliation, reminding us that while we cannot control another person’s response, we are called to pursue peace as far as it depends on us. Ultimately, Christians move toward others because God first moved toward us in Jesus, who bore our sins at the cross to reconcile us to God and now enables us to become people who seek to restore what is broken.